Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin helps health care professionals, students, policy makers and community members explore the challenging ethical questions that have accompanied scientific advances and changes in our health care delivery system.
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A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards
This editorial appears in the May 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Medical aid in dying (MAID) is an important and highly sensitive aspect of end-of-life care reflecting broad ethical considerations. Internationally, approaches to assisted dying vary dramatically in accordance with legal developments, cultural norms, and local advocacy. Medical aid in dying in the […]
A Pioneering Industry-Academia Collaboration Celebrates 10 Years
In May 2015, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine (DME) embarked on a novel pilot program to support equitable expanded-access allocation of a J&J investigational medicine. Expanded access (EA), also known as compassionate use, is a treatment pathway, regulated by health authorities, to […]